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The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize /> Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times BookReview Editors?? Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week
In this ??stunning literary achievement,? Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII????a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal? (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment??a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack??s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors?? testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nea… (plus d'informations)
Nacida y criada en Estados Unidos, Mildred Harnack estudiaba un doctorado en Alemania cuando asistió al meteórico ascenso del Partido Nazi. En 1932, junto a su marido Arvid Harnack, impulsó la creación de un grupo clandestino que en 1940 se había convertido en el mayor grupo de resistencia antinazi de Berlín. Mildred reclutaba a nuevos miembros, ayudaba a escapar a judíos, planeaba actos de sabotaje y, tras el estallido de la segunda guerra mundial, espió para los aliados hasta que fue descubierta; fue condenada a seis años de internamiento en un campo de concentración, pero finalmente Hitler ordenó que fuera ejecutada.
En este apasionante libro basado en una historia real, una de las obras de no ficción más premiadas y aplaudidas de los últimos años, Rebecca Donner, descendiente de Mildred Harnack, combina magistralmente elementos de la novela, la biografía y el thriller. A través de una meticulosa investigación en la que entrelaza cartas, diarios, documentos secretos y testimonios de supervivientes, la autora explora el trágico declive de la Alemania de Hitler y los entresijos de la lucha clandestina y traza un retrato íntimo y conmovedor de una enigmática mujer olvidada por la historia.
«Un retrato deliciosamente rico en matices de una mujer valiente. (...) se lee con la rapidez de un thriller, la profundidad de una novela y la urgencia de un ensayo, como una mezcla muy convincente de Alan Furst y W.G. Sebald.» James Wood
«Una meticulosa investigadora y una maestra del suspense narrativo. He aquí una biografía histórica que se lee como un thriller literario.» Moira Hodgson (The Wall Street Journal)
«Extraordinariamente íntima. Un thriller de la vida real con un final cruel que relata el ascenso de Hitler, de bufón ávido de atención a Führer genocida.» Jennifer Szalai (The New York Times)
«Excepcional. Una biografía apasionante e imaginativa. Un impresionante relato de cómo las personas pueden hallar la fuerza necesaria para desafiar la oscuridad que las rodea.» Time
American expat Mildred Harnack and her husband, German economist Arvid Harnack, formed a Nazi resistance movement in Berlin and paid with their lives. Drawing from Mildred’s letters, various interviews, and archival documents, Donner pieces together an account of the rise of the Nazi party and the beginning of the Second World War. The use of present tense adds intensity to the narrative. While this approach feels fresh, it also lacks some context of parallel events and personalities who were unknown to Mildred. As Mildred’s great-great-niece, Donner had access to Mildred’s letters and other family material not previously available to other researchers. ( )
Can I rate a book as 4 stars if I haven't finished it? Well, I did. Rebecca Donner does an excellent job of presenting the almost unbelievable story of her Gr Gr Aunt, Mildred Fish Harnack from WI who was executed in 1943 by Germany for her work in the resistance. I've read other books about this group and time, but this does such a great job of presenting the time period where the Nazi Party comes to power and manged to take over a country that had more rights for women and workers than most others and make it what it became. It was really hard reading that at this time, hence I didn't finish it. May need to own it though so I can finish it some time. ( )
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[Author's Note] This is a work of nonfiction.
[Introduction] Her aim was self-erasure.
Snow. Fear. Light. One morning in December 1939, a eleven-year-old boy bursts out of the arched front door of an apartment building in Brlin, wondering whether he'll get caught.
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[Author's Note] On February 16, 1943, he slipped the book into the folds of his robe and smuggled it out.
[Introduction] He was just a boy when he met Mildred, young enough to be her son. I tracked him down, and implored him: What did she tell you? How did she enter a room? Did you hear her weep? Sing? Did she trust you?
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The INSTANT New York Times Bestseller Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography Winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award Winner of the Chautauqua Prize Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award Finalist for the Plutarch Award A New York Times Notable Book of 2021 A New York Times BookReview Editors?? Choice A New York Times Critics' Top Pick of 2021 Wall Street Journal 10 Best Books of 2021 Time Magazine 100 Must-Read Books of 2021 Publishers Weekly Top Ten Books of 2021 An Economist Best Book of the Year A New York Post Best Book of the Year A Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Best Book of the Year Oprah Daily Best New Books of August A New York Public Library Book of the Week
In this ??stunning literary achievement,? Donner chronicles the extraordinary life and brutal death of her great-great-aunt Mildred Harnack, the American leader of one of the largest underground resistance groups in Germany during WWII????a page-turner story of espionage, love and betrayal? (Kai Bird, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography) Born and raised in Milwaukee, Mildred Harnack was twenty-six when she enrolled in a PhD program in Germany and witnessed the meteoric rise of the Nazi party. In 1932, she began holding secret meetings in her apartment??a small band of political activists that by 1940 had grown into the largest underground resistance group in Berlin. She recruited working-class Germans into the resistance, helped Jews escape, plotted acts of sabotage, and collaborated in writing leaflets that denounced Hitler and called for revolution. Her coconspirators circulated through Berlin under the cover of night, slipping the leaflets into mailboxes, public restrooms, phone booths. When the first shots of the Second World War were fired, she became a spy, couriering top-secret intelligence to the Allies. On the eve of her escape to Sweden, she was ambushed by the Gestapo. At a Nazi military court, a panel of five judges sentenced her to six years at a prison camp, but Hitler overruled the decision and ordered her execution. On February 16, 1943, she was strapped to a guillotine and beheaded. Historians identify Mildred Harnack as the only American in the leadership of the German resistance, yet her remarkable story has remained almost unknown until now. Harnack??s great-great-niece Rebecca Donner draws on her extensive archival research in Germany, Russia, England, and the U.S. as well as newly uncovered documents in her family archive to produce this astonishing work of narrative nonfiction. Fusing elements of biography, real-life political thriller, and scholarly detective story, Donner brilliantly interweaves letters, diary entries, notes smuggled out of a Berlin prison, survivors?? testimony, and a trove of declassified intelligence documents into a powerful, epic story, reconstructing the moral courage of an enigmatic woman nea
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